Michel Such
Actor
Biography
Michel Such, born in 1944 in Algiers, is a French actor, screenwriter and director.
Michel Such entered the film industry somewhat by chance. "I was working in a bistro, the Santa Cruz, on rue Saint-André-des-Arts in Paris, near a film school. I met people behind the bar who allowed me to get a foot in the door in the profession," he explains. Michel Such went on stage and made his mark there. One day while he was working on a medium-length film by director Luc Béraud, the latter's assistant fell ill. "I gave him a helping hand and he never left me. He was the one who introduced me to Claude Miller, Patrice Leconte and the others." Claude and Annie Miller were particularly important to him. "They followed me and helped me when I moved on to directing. »
Michel Such, becomes one of the essential supporting actors of French cinema, with very popular films like The Best Way to Walk, Les Bronzés or even Come to My Place, I Live with a Copine. Subscribed to supporting roles, silhouettes and appearances, everyone has already seen him at least once. He is the one who takes the scrabble on the face in "Les Bronzés font du ski", the one who goes underwater on water skis in "Les Bronzés", the killer in "Garde à vue", a policeman in "Mes meilleurs copains", a patient in "Chouchou" with Gad Elmaleh, the man with the briefcase in "Mortal hike" or the shoe salesman in "Police Python 357" by Alain Corneau...
Michel who was assistant director to Luc Béraud, Claude Miller, Patrice Leconte, Gérard Vergez, Jean-Marie Poiré, Jean-Louis Leconte, James Cellan Jones etc, will direct three short films: Elli Fat Mat (1990), Vagues À L'Âme (1992) and Vingt-Trois Rue Des Francs Bourgeois (1995), and a feature, Oranges Amères, released in theaters in 1997. The story of Angèle, a pied-noir, who falls in love with Saïd, an Algerian, after the Second World War. The film received the SACD Beaumarchais Prize for the screenplay (1996), as well as the Audience Award at the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival in 1996.
Michel Such has been directing the amateur theatre troupe Saujon Comédia, in Saujon in Charente-Maritime, since the end of the 1990s.
As Director
Filmography
French Fried Vacation 2
as Co-owner of the apartment who leaves late 1979
French Fried Vacation
as Le gros Lenny qui veut faire du ski nautique 1978
The Inquisitor
as Jean-Marie Jabelain, Stolen Car Owner 1981
Ménage
as The Nightclub Flirt 1986
Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's
as Le client au loden 1981
That Most Important Thing: Love
as Electrician 1975
The Thirst for Gold
as Le gendarme 1993
Deadly Circuit
as The Man with the Briefcase 1983
My Best Pals
as Le gendarme 1989
The Inheritor
as (uncredited) 1973
The Best Way to Walk
as Léni 1976
L'été en pente douce
as Paul le vigile 1987
Quartet
as Prison Guard 1981
Dog's Dialogue
1987
Tell Her That I Love Her
as Raymond 1977
Spoiled Children
as Un locataire 1977
Levy & Goliath
as Cafe owner 1987